Happiness is always a byproduct. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy, you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. —Robertson Davies More about this quote Tags: life happiness worry unhappiness temperament Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To strengthen the mind you must harden the muscles. —Michel Eyquem de Montaigne More about this quote Tags: mind strength body muscles Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is my opinion that humans are largely what they make of themselves; in other words, "human nature" is not so much an empirical reality as a process of self-construction. This means that if people become what they think they are, what they think they are is exceedingly important. —Linda Marie Fedigan More about this quote Tags: humanity reality accomplishment self thinking human nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everything on earth [is] beautiful, everything, except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity. —Anton Chekhov More about this quote Tags: life beauty purpose thinking earth humanity dignity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I had to face the facts; I was pear-shaped. I was a bit depressed because I hate pears. Especially their shape. —Charlotte Bingham More about this quote Tags: self-image hatred body fitness shape Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The body has its own way of knowing, a knowing that has little to do with logic, and much to do with truth; little to do with control, and much to do with acceptance; little to do with division and analysis, and much to do with union. —Marilyn Sewell More about this quote Tags: truth acceptance knowledge logic analysis body control union Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I honor shit for saying: We go on. —Maxine Kumin More about this quote Tags: action honor shit continuation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have, it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet. —D. H. Lawrence More about this quote Tags: life living soul body Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred. —Walt Whitman More about this quote Tags: wonder body sacredness human body Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Passionate love is not peculiar to the human species, for it penetrates through all existing things — celestial, elemental, vegetable, and mineral. —Avicenna More about this quote Tags: humanity love passion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: judgement sin affection care touch Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We have attempted to separate the spiritual and the erotic, thereby reducing the spiritual to a world of flattened affect, a world of the ascetic who aspires to feel nothing. —Audre Lorde More about this quote Tags: spirituality feelings seperation eroticism asceticism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Fear has a smell, as love does. —Margaret Atwood More about this quote Tags: love fear smell Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We have so many words for states of mind, and so few for the states of the body. —Jeanne Moreau More about this quote Tags: words language body Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance. —Anna Quindlen in Every Last One More about this quote Tags: wonder fate whim happenstance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email